Abstract: The present invention relates to a system and a method for monitoring the state of health of a vehicle occupant. The system comprises a control unit, which comprises the following: a receiver for the wireless reception of physiological parameters of at least one unit which is worn on the body, which comprises one or more sensors for determining one or more physiological parameters of the vehicle occupant, and a diagnostic module which is designed to derive information regarding the state of health, the state of well-being, or of illnesses, at least partially on the basis of the physiological parameters received. The control unit is also designed to provide the vehicle occupants with information regarding the state of health by means of at least one output unit of the vehicle and to initiate at least one of the following steps: adapt vehicle functions to the state, or, by means of at least one output unit of the vehicle, to suggest or interactively to carry out measures that improve the state.

Abstract: A heatable liquid container made from plastic material, particularly for holding water/urea mixtures and having an internal cavity and a heating element arranged essentially in the internal cavity of the container, and with at least one connection end, the heating element is braced by a bracing element in at least one bearing area in the internal cavity of the liquid container. The heating element is supported in a horizontally floating manner by the bracing element. The bracing element is an insert part that is at least partially encased in the plastic material by sintering and is made from the same material as the inner wall of the liquid container.

Abstract: A heatable liquid container made from plastic material, particularly for holding water/urea mixtures and having an internal cavity and a heating element arranged essentially in the internal cavity of the container, and with at least one connection end, the heating element is braced by a bracing element in at least one bearing area in the internal cavity of the liquid container. The heating element is supported in a horizontally floating manner by the bracing element. The bracing element is an insert part that is at least partially encased in the plastic material by sintering and is made from the same material as the inner wall of the liquid container.

Abstract: The novel process for preparing dialkyl dicarbonates by reacting the corresponding alkyl haloformates with alkali metal hydroxides, alkaline earth metal hydroxides and/or carbonates in the presence of water-immiscible organic solvents and in the presence of a catalyst is characterized in that the catalyst used is at least one tertiary alkylamine of the formula (I) NR1R2R3,??(I) where the substituents are each as defined in the description.

Abstract: The novel process for preparing dialkyl dicarbonates by reacting the corresponding alkyl haloformates with alkali metal hydroxides, alkaline earth metal hydroxides and/or carbonates in the presence of water-immiscible organic solvents and in the presence of a catalyst is characterized in that the catalyst used is at least one tertiary alkylamine of the formula (I) NR1R2R3 ??(I), where the substituents are each as defined in the description.

Abstract: Alcohols prepared by reacting carboxylic acids and/or carboxylic esters with hydrogen in the presence of a special catalyst.

Abstract: The present invention relates to catalysts comprising chiral monophosphorus compounds and their use, the chiral monophosphorus compounds themselves and also their precursors.

Abstract: The present invention relates to catalysts comprising chiral monophosphorus compounds and their use, the chiral monophosphorus compounds themselves and also their precursors.

Abstract: The invention relates to the biphenyldiols of the formula (V) The corresponding racemic and enantiomerically pure triflate compounds thereof, where R1 and R2 are H, R3 is chlorine, and R4 is methoxy. In an alternate embodiment, R1 and R2 are hydrogen and R3 and R4 are C1-C4-alkoxy, fluorine, or chlorine.

Abstract: Apparatus for maintaining a predefined pressure in one or more reactors to which pressures from 1 to 500 bar can be applied, with simultaneous measurement of the gas mass flow, comprising at least one buffer container (A) which is equipped with a pressure gauge (B) and can be filled with gas via at least one valve (C), and the buffer container (A) being connected to at least one reactor (F) which is likewise equipped with a pressure gauge (B′), characterized in that the connection between buffer container and reactor contains a restrictor (D) and a valve (E) which is controlled via a control unit (H) which is connected to the pressure gauges of the reactor (F) and of the buffer container (A) via control lines.

Abstract: Alcohols prepared by reacting carboxylic acids and/or carboxylic esters with hydrogen in the presence of a special catalyst.

Abstract: The invention relates to the preparation and use as catalysts of diphosphines of the formula (I) 1

Abstract: The present invention relates to catalysts comprising chiral monophosphorus compounds and their use, the chiral monophosphorus compounds themselves and also their precursors.

Abstract: The invention relates to the preparation and use as catalysts of diphosphines of the formula (I) in which R is C6-C14-aryl or C4-C13-heteroaryl containing 1 to 3 heteroatoms selected from the group consisting of nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur, wherein the aryl and heteroaryl radicals may optionally be substituted by halogen, C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6-alkoxy, and/or trimethylsilyl, and R1 to R4, independently of one another, are each hydrogen, C1-C10-alkyl, C1-C10-alkoxy, F, Cl, or Br.

Abstract: The invention relates to the preparation and use as catalysts of diphosphines of the formula (I) 1

Abstract: The invention relates to ruthenium catalysts for the hydrogenation of diaminodiphenylmethane to diaminodicyclohexylmethane, particularly with a proportion of trans,trans-4,4′-diaminodicyclohexylmethane of from 17 to 24%, in a continuously operated suspension reactor, where ruthenium is applied to a support of high-purity aluminum oxide that preferably has a sodium content of less than 0.05% by weight, a particle size of from 5 to 150 &mgr;m, and a BET specific surface area of from 30 to 300 m2/g.

Abstract: The invention relates to the preparation of enantiomerically pure bis-diphenylphosphine oxides in a particularly advantageous manner by (1) reacting an aromatic bromine compound with a diphenylphosphinic chloride in a mixture of tetrahydrofuran and an aromatic hydrocarbon to give a diphenylphosphine oxide, which is isolated from a solution in an aromatic hydrocarbon by adding a saturated aliphatic hydrocarbon; (2) metalating the resulting diphenylphosphine oxide in the 6-position and reacting the metalated diphenylphosphine oxide with iodine at temperatures not less than −25° C.

Abstract: The invention relates to the preparation and use as catalysts of diphosphines of the formula (I) in which R is C6-C14-aryl or C4-C13-heteroaryl containing 1 to 3 heteroatoms selected from the group consisting of nitrogen, oxygen, and sulfur, wherein the aryl and heteroaryl radicals may optionally be substituted by halogen, C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6-alkoxy, and/or trimethylsilyl, and R1 to R4, independently of one another, are each hydrogen, C1-C10-alkyl, C1-C10-alkoxy, F, Cl, or Br.